Book of Days

Been working in my moleskine and playing around with my new prisma colour pencils and trying out a lettering idea.  This page is more akin to the journal pages I should be doing for Book of Days but never seem to get around to.  So busy with the coming up exhibition in May stuff.  My sketchbook is being exhibited too so Im trying to fill it up with stuff LOL

Sisterhood

SisterHood Girls Fly.  I did this painting after watching Effy lifestream on Sunday.  She was celebrating our sisterhood group on FaceBook,  and I thought yeah what a wonderful thing to do. I will do it too.
Her hair strands are filled with friendship quotes and the circles on her body represent all the cirlces of friends we are making in the group.  I loved playing with this pulled art idea.

Book of Days

 Ive been so busy with exhibition preparation that I had no time to do anything else lately; so Ive been playing catch up with my book of days this weekend.  I have left my entire volume one book aside to catch up with the months of Jan - through to - March.  I will have to catch up inbetween working on a new volume from April onwards. 
So yesterday I prepared a new volume two book cover and kept my connecting word - metamorphosis.  I recycled an old recipe book and had lots of fun playing with spray inks, punchinella, my brayer and bubble wrap and a collaged butterfly.  Im finding Im learning lots about backgrounds from watching Effy Wilds Bod videos. Im enjoying Bod so much that I subscribed to Premium.
I also found time to catch up with week ones first spread all about Looking Forward.  I did this spread very quickly using watercolour pencils, graphite and fine liners. I journalled about immediate things that I am looking forward to this coming year.
Here is the book cover and the catch up spread for January

Book of Days - First Week (spread 1)

Fridays spread is all about remembering to be playful and finding the inner child. My BOD book is a recycled parenting book full of lovely little interesting child illustrations, which I will try to keep as I go through the book and incorporate into my spreads.  I thought it was fitting to recycle a parenting book with my word Metamorphosis, as children change everyday and I am hoping that my creativity soars and changes and stays playful as I work through this book.

Book of Days - First Week (Inside Cover)

Im still playing catch up for BOD (book of days) with Effy Wild.  Today I watched her video for making the inside pocket of our recyled book.   We had to add a little accordian envelope to keep stuff inside and decorate the inside spread with whatever took our fancy and still connecting to our word for the book.
We also had to say goodbye to the old year 2011 and write all our hopes and dreams down for 2012.  We also made a secret pocket, to save stuff we dont want to share with anyone.  All in all it was a great video and I learned a lot of new techniques.  I am so grateful to Effy for sharing her art journey daily with us.  She is a very special lady.

Book of Days - First Week

Last night I worked on the cover of my recylcled book for Book of Days with Effy Wild.  We had to connect to a word that resonnates with us. Each volume we make this coming year can have the same word or we can make new words to connect to as we progress. I chose the word Metamorphosis as I feel my life and my art are in a really good transitional phase at the moment.  I am hoping to push through the ugly phase of my art soon to and for it to emerge like a beautiful butterfly.

Book of Days (BOD)

Effy Wild from Wild Precious Life is giving a free years premiership membership for the Book of Days course she is running.  You can find out more about her art journey there and how you can win the premier membership.  Even if you dont win a membership you can always take a basic membership to take part in BOD.  Journalling is tons of fun, if you havent tried it....this could be a great opportunity for you to get involved and use up all of your lovely art materials.